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Possibility to confirm command '-Activate Function Level(xxxx)'

There is only one command needed to activate an higher or less (fallback) Function Level. Please provide a possibility like e.g. a WTO that has to be replied to confirm the command.
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Suppress Zeros

I have zero supress on, but when I have calculations included in the report, the output includes all values and doesn't suppress. In this case below – all materials are being shown Is this to do with the calculation or how do I remove/suppress a...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

DB2 Console To Be Made Available On e3270

Hi... The DB2 console was of great use to our DB2 users. It WAS available in the classic OM monitor. With our recent upgrade from OM v5.3 to v5.5, we have "sunset" the classic monitor in favor of the e3270 monitor. In doing so, we were surpris...
over 4 years ago in OMEGAMON XE for Db2 Performance Expert for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Content Manager should wait for the Database during initialization

During the content manager initialization, if it cannot connect when it attempts to access the database for the content store it will log an error and exit. Instead, it should go into a wait loop where it tries to connect every X seconds up to a m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

ACCESSING A REMOTE TABLE REFERENCED BY A SYNONYM GIVES ERROR 926 WITHIN XA ENVIRONMENT

When we are in an XA environment, and we execute a query against a synonym for a remote server, we get an error -926. This error does not occur when using local tables. The error also does not occur if using a non-XA connection against the synonym...
about 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Client Products 0 Not under consideration

CREATE or REPLACE VIEW

After a DROP Table the view still exists, but it will only be invalidated;when the base-table is re-created any references to view will re-validated. Privileges for the View are still valid. This mechanism already works for DB2 for LUW where one c...
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

Provide N-Access for IN-lists containing non-column-expressions

Hi SAS-Queries of generate queries containing the following type of predicate:IN (YEAR(CURRENT DATE – 1 YEAR), YEAR(CURRENT DATE))Unfortunately this expression is not indexable
about 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Ability to build transformer cube on cloud server

On CloudBI users create cubes on premises and then transfer MDC files to a SFTP server. The time to build a cube is higher especially for clients with data in soft layer.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OPL shall generate concert model with column API

OPL fails at building very large scale models due to the fact that it uses a "row api" of concert : Variables are created and added then to the range constraints. Unfortunately, such API can become dramatically slow for very large models, and bui...
almost 6 years ago in Decision Optimization CPLEX & For Watson Studio / CPLEX Optimization Studio 0 Not under consideration

URL for JDBC without ending semi-colon in optional parameters

When using extra parameters for the connection in a JDBC URL, the complete URL should end with a semi-colon. However, other drivers for other RDBMS do not need the las semi-colon; actually, the semi-colon is only used for key/value separation, not...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration